[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

Chris Lattner lattner at cs.uiuc.edu
Thu Aug 5 14:53:26 PDT 2004



Changes in directory llvm/docs:

ReleaseNotes.html updated: 1.226 -> 1.227
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Log message:

More prominantly mention ppc support, more accurately describe its status


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Diffs of the changes:  (+6 -3)

Index: llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
diff -u llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.226 llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.227
--- llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html:1.226	Thu Aug  5 16:04:03 2004
+++ llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.html	Thu Aug  5 16:53:13 2004
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@
 release primarily improves the <a href="#codequality">performance of the
 code</a> produced by all aspects of the LLVM compiler, adds many <a
 href="#newfeatures">new features</a>, <a href="#bugfix">fixes a few
-bugs</a>, and speeds up the compiler.</p>
+bugs</a>, speeds up the compiler, and introduces a new (experimental)
+PowerPC code generator.</p>
 
 <p> At this time, LLVM is known to correctly compile and run all C & C++
 SPEC CPU95 & 2000 benchmarks, the Olden benchmarks, and the Ptrdist 
@@ -349,8 +350,10 @@
 <li>Intel and AMD machines running Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD (and probably 
     other unix-like systems).</li>
 <li>Sun UltraSPARC workstations running Solaris 8.</li>
-<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.2 and above.</li>
 <li>Intel and AMD machines running on Win32 with the Cygwin libraries.</li>
+<li>PowerPC-based Mac OS X boxes, running 10.2 and above.  Note that no JIT
+support is available yet, and LLC support is beta.  The C backend can be used
+to produce stable code for this platform.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>The core LLVM infrastructure uses
@@ -765,7 +768,7 @@
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   <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
-  Last modified: $Date: 2004/08/05 21:04:03 $
+  Last modified: $Date: 2004/08/05 21:53:13 $
 </address>
 
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